Person Details

Birthday: 1880-02-16 07:33:39

Death: 1946-08-12 07:33:39

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]

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Movie Involvements: 63

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Egon Brecher (18 February 1880 – 12 August 1946) was an Austria-Hungary-born actor and director, who also served as the chief director of Vienna's Stadts Theatre, before entering the motion picture industry. The son of a professor, Brecher began studying philosophy in 1900 at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He did not finish his studies, deciding to become an actor. He appeared on several provincial stages in Germany and Austria until 1910, and then played in Vienna on various occasions, directed by Josef Jarno until 1921. In 1907, he founded an initiative (which lasted for something like one or two years) to play modern Yiddish theatre in German language with Siegfried Schmitz and members of the student club ‘Theodor Herzl’ like Hugo Zuckermann and Oskar Rosenfeld. In 1919 he was co-founder of the Freie Jüdische Volksbühne in Vienna, a Yiddish theatre, which existed for three years. Then, in 1921, he moved to New York to act on Broadway. He moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s to appear in foreign-language versions of American films. In the mid-1930s he appeared in classic horror films The Black Cat, Werewolf of London, The Black Room, Mark of the Vampire and The Devil-Doll, and worked steadily in the espionage films of the 1930s/40s, his Slavic accent landing him roles both noble and villainous. One of his largest screen roles was in 1946's So Dark the Night. He died later in 1946, aged 66, of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California.

Most Famous Work

Rebecca
Average
8

Rebecca

(1940) Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Man Hunt
Average
7

Man Hunt

(1941) Jeweler
Heidi
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7

Heidi

(1937) Inn Keeper
Werewolf of London
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6

Werewolf of London

(1935) Priest (uncredited)
The Black Cat
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7

The Black Cat

(1934) The Majordomo
All This, and Heaven Too
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7

All This, and Heaven Too

(1940) Doctor (uncredited)
Mark of the Vampire
Average
6

Mark of the Vampire

(1935) Coroner (uncredited)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Average
6

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1946 Frenchman (uncredited)
Dr. Boncourt
Marcel Aubert
Dr. Evans (uncredited)
The Postman (Uncredited)
1945 Dr. Gerig
Dr. Rose (replaced by Frank Reicher) (uncredited)
Wassilikow (uncredited)
1943 Gestapo Official (Uncredited)
Heinrich Sahm (uncredited)
1942 Richard Heller
Adolph (uncredited)
Dr. Candell
1941 Pop Duval
Herr Director
Jeweler
Victor Jourdain (uncredited)
Music Foundation Director (uncredited)
1940 Von Konstat (uncredited)
Elder in Norway (uncredited)
Child's Father (uncredited)
Czech
Doctor (uncredited)
Jacques Dubois
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Martl
Austrian Judge (uncredited)
Samuels the Druggist (uncredited)
1939 Anton Volduzzi
Mr. Adolf Schiller
Larsch
Dr. Gunther
Mr. Smith
Baron von Magnus (uncredited)
Pograncz (uncredited)
Fritz Muller - German Agent (uncredited)
Klaus
Landlord
Debriac
1938 Soviet Travel Bureau Agent
Doctor
Rabbi
Citizen
Peters (uncredited)
Mr. Levine
Pawnbroker
Kirman
Vasseur (uncredited)
J.Z. Beckman (uncredited)
General A. R. Bowen
1937 Antique Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
Inn Keeper
John (uncredited)
Emile - Upper Sled Run Tower Control
Chief of Police
Morris - the Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Deputy Bergery
Dombrowski
1936 Sir Conrad Stava
Detective (uncredited)
Pastor Fliedner
Doctor
Schultz
Pa Vangarick
Russian Musician
Ulrich
1935 Descartes
Priest (uncredited)
Schulter's Henchman
Coroner (uncredited)
Karl
1934 Doctor (uncredited)
Dr. Otto von Strudel
The Majordomo
Racz
Mr. Janowski
1933 Zorb
Mark Hayden
1929 N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

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